Short Cuts

Today's Pundit Points

"If you're a heterosexual clergyman and you're having sex outside marriage, you can be expelled. But if you're a homosexual clergyman having sex outside marriage, they rejoice." - An Episcopalian friend of Cal Thomas.

"The Democratic Party, at least as represented in its primaries, is the party of superior anger. Somehow, they still call themselves liberal." - Emmett Tyrrell

"This morning when I strained to slog through LaDowd’s latest, only to find she was still flogging the same clichés about neocons undermining the real war on terror, whatever that is and as if she could tell us, I knew I had had enough." - Blogger Roger Simon on term limits for Op-Ed writers.

(Democrats have) “a visceral, almost aesthetic recoil from Bush's persona -- his Texasness, the way he walks, the way he talks. They would not like the way he wears his hat or sips his tea, if he did such things." - George Will

"The would-be ‘liberators’ of Liberia, backed by Taylor’s enemies in neighboring regimes, more or less guarantee that the country's future will be as poor and vicious and diseased as they are." - Mark Steyn

"Now he sits without a clue, a billionaire who knows what's good for us. "It works in California," he says. In California, if I hear it right wherever I go, he'd be recalled this weekend." - Sidney Zion on Mayor Bloomberg.

"For crying out loud, folks, we are dealing with one of the worst bad guys in the history of bad guys, and the people of this country are reasonable, see it and understand it." - Rush Limbaugh